An Obsession with All Things Handmade and Home-Cooked

Bunny Love

Easter means two things to me: Cute, fluffy bunnies, and candy. Since I would hate to pass up the opportunity to celebrate pretty much any holiday, despite my pitiful lack of knowledge about it, I set about making the most festive sweet treat I could muster.

Thank goodness I still had a marshmallow kit from Angel Food, which had admittedly expired six months ago, but still worked just as promised. Thick, billowing clouds of marshmallow-y goodness were soon whipping around the beater of my mixer, dyed a pastel pink thanks to the pomegranate juice I substituted for water. Peeps are pretty much the epitome of Easter to me, but it would be a stretch to try piping out those iconic shapes, so instead the mallow was set in a baking dish, to be cut out later into appropriate shapes.

Carefully poking those microscopic ears and tails out of the metal form, it seemed like a task that would last me all day. Little did I know that like the real thing, this rabbits can really multiply in no time…!

Gosh they’re cute! When I was a vegetarian I liked to eat little chocolate nests (broken up Shredded Wheat mixed with chocolate and then left to set in the shape of nests in paper cupcake cases) with a few Cadury’s Mini Eggs on top. I need to find a vegan version of those eggs so I can make some this year.

Wow Hannah, those are SO cute! I’m glad you went ahead and used your ‘expired’ marshie mix – I did put very conservative dates on the first few batches. It’s a learning process. So sorry to hear about your hand, hope it heals quickly. Best wishes, Alice

There is no need to buy marshmallows when you can make your own fabulous vegan marshmallows at home.

The breakthrough ingredient to making vegan marshmallows is you need a fluffy mixture into which you beat the jell mixture. Soy protein isolate is what the commercial vegan marshmallow makers use for the fluffy stuff.